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Khirbet Qeiyafa

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Oct 25, 2018 08:41 AM — History

Khirbet Qeiyafa, also known as Elah Fortress, is an Iron Age fortress site located about 40 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem, overlooking the Elah Valley. The site was likely constructed in the late eleventh century BCE and destroyed or abandoned in the mid- to late tenth century BCE.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/45016675

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.6964321, 34.9573593

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Hirbat Qaiyafa (1200 BC - 550 BC)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- חורבת קייאפה (Khirbet Qeiyafa: Modern Hebrew)

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Khirbet Qeiyafa receives connections from:

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Place type:
fort, tower (deprecated)

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Khirbet Qeiyafa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/45016675> [accessed: 23 September 2023]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/45016675 |title=Places: 45016675 (Khirbet Qeiyafa) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=September 23, 2023 10:08 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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